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A workshop adaptation of the most popular comic opera in the German repertoire, the story of Peter the Great's hilarious apprenticeship as ship's carpenter in 17th century Holland. Lortzing's glorious melodies provide a subtly ironic background to clashes in culture and temperament between the autocratic Russian tsar and the stubbornly democratic Dutch, and enrich this classic comic tale of love, diplomacy, the quest for knowledge and the enduring problem of Russia's relations with the West